Summary:
This commit revolutionizes our approach to handling ENUM metadata for
rule input structures by embedding this metadata directly within each
rule's definition. By leveraging the `EnumProvider` interface and
utilizing reflection, we've created a system where rules self-describe
their ENUM fields, enhancing the API's flexibility and maintainability.
The `GetRuleStruct` API endpoint is now capable of dynamically generating
responses that include both the input structure and ENUM options, directly
derived from the rule definitions themselves.
Key Changes:
- **Introduced `EnumProvider` Interface**:
Allows rule structs to define their own ENUM options, centralizing this
information within the rule implementations.
- **Enhanced Rule Descriptors**:
Rule descriptors are streamlined to focus on factory methods and input
struct types, with ENUM metadata being provided by the rules themselves
through the `EnumProvider` interface.
- **Dynamic ENUM Metadata Retrieval**:
The `GetRuleStruct` function dynamically extracts ENUM metadata from
rules that implement the `EnumProvider`, ensuring the API response
includes relevant ENUM options for frontend UI generation.
- **API Response Enhancement**:
Adjusted the API to provide a response that includes the rule's input
structure, possible ENUM values, and the rule instance representation,
all derived dynamically to support extensible and maintainable rule
definitions.
This change implements the category / rule Server which will showcase
storig arbirtray alongside the hostname which are not part of hostname
generation.
This change moves the responsibility of calling the HostnameRule.Generate
function to the corresponding HostnameRule.{Insert,Update} functions
which will allow autonomy especially for the update functions on when
a hostname needs to be regenerated.
In BaseRule.baseUpdate our goal is to check if a hostname exists before
trying to rename that hostname into something else. This patch fixes an
error where the newly generated Hostname was used to check for the
existence of the old hostname.
Florian Beisel